{"id":2324,"date":"2015-09-03T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/guitar-international-vince-lewis\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T19:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:54:21","slug":"guitar-international-vince-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/guitar-international-vince-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar International – Vince Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0“Busstra has a good command of the instrument, and a musical voice that combines both the Scofield and Metheny in his playing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the debut album as a leader for Dutch guitarist Marnix Busstra. He co-led two previous recordings with vibist-composer Mike Mainieri. 2009 saw Twelve Piece<\/em> and in 2010 they recorded a double live CD titled Trinary Motion<\/em>. On this CD the Amsterdam guitarist is joined by Rembrandt Frerichs (piano), Arnold Dooyeweerd (bass) and Pieter Bast (drums).<\/span><\/p>\n

The ten selections on the album are Busstra originals. They each leave plenty of room for rubato sections which allow the players to express themselves more freely than usual. \u00a0\u201cEarth Tone\u201d opens the set, and features Busstra on electric sitar-guitar. \u00a0The melody is simple, yet effective in capturing the ethnic flavor and spirit of the instrument. \u00a0The rhythm section floats above a repetitive bass line quite nicely.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWise Witch\u201d is up next, and gives Busstra a chance to come on strong with a punchy and distorted John Scofield influenced tone. Busstra states that he likes the fuzzy tone in order to achieve a singing sound. \u00a0Bast has a chance here to provide everything from an almost street beat on the drums to more punctuation marks percussively. \u00a0\u201cDown And Up Again\u201d is a bright melody in 6\/8. \u00a0Frerichs contributes a fine and modern funky tinged solo on this tune.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall Truth\u201d is a very pretty ballad with an interesting but simple harmonic structure. \u00a0Busstra lets his single notes float above an ostinato accompaniment by his rhythm section. \u00a0\u201cWave Swinger\u201d returns to the bluesy distortion sound and crosses boundaries between the more modern and traditional swing feel.<\/p>\n

Other tunes are \u201cOctoforce,\u201d \u201cDesolation,\u201d \u00a0\u201cPeasant\u2019s Party\u201d and \u201cBetween Blue and Brown\u201d.<\/p>\n

The title cut \u201cSync Dreams\u201d features some nice piano and guitar unisons stating the intervallic melody line. \u00a0Busstra describes this track as \u201ctotally free, but it is also a composition\u201d. \u00a0Frerichs has a chance to show his very credible technical skill here.<\/p>\n

This is an interesting recording. \u00a0Busstra has a good command of the instrument, and a musical voice that combines both the Scofield and Metheny in his playing. Listeners who prefer this type of energy and distortion driven music should give it a listen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0“Busstra has a good command of the instrument, and a musical voice that combines both the Scofield and Metheny in his playing.” This is the debut album as a leader for Dutch guitarist Marnix Busstra. He co-led two previous recordings with vibist-composer Mike Mainieri. 2009 saw Twelve Piece and in 2010 they recorded a double live CD titled Trinary Motion…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rev-mbb-sync-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}